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Ratings aren't an effective tool, especially when employers punish any failure to reach 5/5. For me, a rating of five stars means "Someone did a job, and it went perfectly ok." A rating of between one and four stars, meanwhile, means "I am prepared to jeopardise a total stranger's livelihood."
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I'll get round to it next Wensday
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What else are you needing to do with your right hand while you use your computer?
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Dear Anon Opinion Guy, I hope you are well. The weather continues fine. In response to your opinion posted this morning, I feel compelled to proffer my opinion: 🤦 I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
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We should also do it like French, then instead of 91, we could say ‘four twentys and onety one’
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One thing is certain. No human being, in the whole of forever, has ever uttered the sentence "This is a new way to enjoy my favourite treat!"
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Oh good. More remakes of old concepts. That's totally better than creating an original idea.
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I suspect I've been trolled, but I'm allowing myself the pleasure of rising to the bait.
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No, we don't "need" capital letters, the same way we don't "need" hot running water, or kettles, or to say "Good morning!" to people we know in the street. It's just one of those things we collectively decided to do to make our experiences - in this case, reading - more pleasant and convenient.
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"Incalculable harm" is the kind of language Enoch Powell would have rejected as too controversial
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My grandfather, who fought in the first War and lived through the second, would never allow his name to be spoken in his home because of Ebbw Vale.
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"Things I Tell The World When I Should Be Telling Them To My Spouse Instead: Number 1,242 in an occasional series"
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You can't "confess" something that someone else does. If anything, this is a "public shaming". It ought to be on the "publicshamehole" feed instead.
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You took my point and showed me a better, sharper way of framing that insight. Thanks. Bet a machine couldn't have done that!
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I think the fundamental error the writer makes, and the trick which AI tries to pull, is that it’s creating something, not copying it. Fine to be inspired by an artist if it prompts you to create something new. But a machine is utterly incapable of the kind of ‘thinking’ required to do that
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A darts board in a secondary school? Excellent idea! I can’t think of any way that could go wrong
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Right, right. So you want me to squeeze a cow, and if something comes out, I should drink it?
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It's the greatest piece of art ever produced! Just like everything else that was popular when I was between the ages of 15 and 20!
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I’d appreciate a NSFW warning on such a titillating post 😆
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Kan’t jou see how mukh less komplicated this makes our eksistense!
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On similar lines, x can be replaced by ks, c can be covered by k or s depending on whether it’s hard or soft, and y can become j, pronounced as it is in foreign languages. I’m not paying for 26 letters when I only need 23!
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Any notice that begins with the words "Polite Notice"
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This is true, but mostly because most people’s idea of poetry is ‘occasionally, one word rhymes with another word’, and they have no sense of rhythm or metre
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‘Information wants to be free!’ We didn’t place proper value on information in the early days of the Internet, so now we get information that’s worth exactly what we wanted to pay for it. Reap what we sow, etc, etc…
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The European Union says”plural forms are acceptable as long as they do not change the EUR root” european-union.europa.eu/institutions... I guess they get to have a say in the grammatical rules governing their own currency, yes?
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When someone told you to look up "gullible" in the dictionary, you clearly weren't fooled
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Clubcards aren't a way to save money. They're a way to avoid paying a premium for privacy.
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I'm totally sold on this modern remake of "Remembrance of Things Past"
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Fairytale of New York is my Whamageddon. I've got to the 23rd without hearing it. Two days away from total victory.
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The amount of lampshading they do throughout... "It's really weird that I, a cop, am caught up in movie-worthy fights with terrorists every Christmas Eve! What's up with that!"
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#diehard2
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#diehard2
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Big Michael Gove energy being manifested here
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Like, if he says "here's what the terrorists are doing", maybe he knows what he's talking about?
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"Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?" #diehard2 meets #airplane
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Didn't he move to LA after the first movie? (source: Gospel of John McClane)
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Everyone likes to show off their new togs at Christmas
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Time was you could buy a pint of mead and still have enough change from a ducat to buy a capon and chips from the victualler on your way home. I miss those days.